Four simple steps to practice quality improvement at health facility level
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On the global scale, the impacts of the current food system on the environment are severe. The agro-industrial revolution has made it possible to increase food production at a price.
This leaflet is intended to inform physicians — mainly GPs — and medical students on how to recognize a possible radiation injury. It is important to note that radiation injury has no special signs and symptoms. However, the combination of some of them may be typical of radiation injury.
Arabic... version available: http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/pub_meet/en/Arabicleaflet.pdf?ua=1
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Lancet Glob Health 2015; 385: e387–95. Open Access
Towards the Peoples Health Assembly Book -4
Miscellaneous
Chapter J.5
Human Rights, Minimum Standards and Monitoring at the European and International Levels
Patient-centred care (PCC) is a pillar of quality health services, where decision-making power is shared between the clinician and the patient. Although, this approach could be adopted with easiness in high income settings or in countries with unified health systems, in settings such as Peru, where ...universal access and other structural problems remain a challenge, the practice of PCC is not a priority. In Peru, research on PCC has been conducted for almost two decades, but this has not generated a need for development in academia, decision makers, health personnel or patients. Here, we give an overview of the road that PCC research has taken in Peru and the challenges that remain to translate it into clinical practice.
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